Development of Capitalism in Russia

discussed in biography

Even while in exile in Siberia, Lenin had begun research on his investigation of the peasant question, which culminated in his magisterial Development of Capitalism in Russia (published legally in 1899). In this work, a study of Russian economics, he argued that capitalism was rapidly destroying the peasant commune. The peasantry constituted for the Populists a homogeneous social class,...

Marxist theory

...has nevertheless everywhere and always analyzed the superstructure which corresponds to these relations of production.” In Razvitiye kapitalizma v Rossi (1897–99; The Development of Capitalism in Russia) Lenin sought to apply Marx’s analysis by showing the growing role of capital, in particular commercial capital, in the exploitation of the workers in...